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ORIENTALE
THE CH
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SPECTACULAR NIGHT RAIDS BY CHINESE
Shanghai, To-day.
The city passed another sleepless night, in the course of which Chinese planes made seven air raids and kept Japanese warships and shore bat- teries peppering the skies with anti-aircraft guns and machine-gun bullets.
AA shell splinters fell on the Great War Mem- orial on the Bund, while about a dozen bullets struck a wall near Reuter's offices in the Cable Building on Avenue Edward VII.-
The last raid, at 2.30 this morning, was the most daring and spectacular since hostilities start- ed, a bright moon and low-hanging clouds making conditions ideal.
More than twenty searchlights combed the skies but never spotted the raiders.
Two bombs were aimed at the headquarters of the Japanese marine garrison near Hongkew Park, with unknown results, while missiles intended for the flagship Izumo fell on shore in the Japanese-
250 TO-DAY • TO-MORROW occupied section of the Settlement and started a big
“GIVE ME A GUN AND I'M A KING!
THAT'S WHAT WAR TAUGHT ME "”
The raid on the machine-gun nest! A hero is made and a killer born! A flaming drama of three adrift in the perilous years after the war.
THREE STARS IN A DRAMATIC SENSATION!
HERO IN 1918...MOBSTER IN 1937!
IT'S
"Floved him.. but he was
weak
and after the war a gun was the only thing
that would make
him as strong as anybody!"""
Spincer
TRACY
GEORGE TONE
Gladys
THEY GAVE HIM
SENSATIONAL
WED
THUR
A GUN
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Other targets included the Nine Japanese planes, in forma- Yangtsepoo airfield.
tions of three, subjected Chapei,
It is reported that an incen- Chenju and Pootung Point to severe diary bomb fell on the $1,000,000 Seventh Day Adventist buildings
in Yangtsepoo, starting a fire which destroyed ten houses.
LIUHANG BATTLE
fua-Nan
ARTILLERY DUEL.
Shanghai, To-day.
An artillery duel thundered dur- ing the night between the Japanese
Bitter fighting raged on the batteries at Hongkew and Chinese Liubang sector yesterday, the position in Pootung. Chinese claiming to have repuls- The Heng Feng Cotton Mill at target of se ed a
fierce Japanese attack at Yangtzepoo was the
Considerable Kwangfu, three kilometres west veral Chinese shells.
stored m this of Liubang, after a four-hour arms which were s battle.
building were destroyed.
Yiyang A Japanese steamer, the Maru, was hit by a Chinese shell, which pierced the hall-Interna tional News.
A semi-official Chinese re port states that the Japanese lost 1,200 men in an at- tempt to peirce the Chinese centre and push on Nan- hsiang, thus bottling up the Chinese forces în Chapei and Kiangwan, who hither- to have withstood all fron tal attacks.
In the course of daily rou- tine bombing," Japanese planes attacked Soochow, famous in le gend and history for its beauti- ful women
The railway station was dam- aged Beuter.
WOOSUNG CLASH
Chinese Land And Air Operation
Shanghai, To-day.
REORGANISATION IN REPUBLICAN SPAIN
Paris, To-day. Government
The Valencia shortly be transferred to Barcelona, Bays. "Le Soir" in a ssage from its Barcelona correspondent.
Advantages of the change, it is said, are obvious, since the Catalan war industries could then be stimu- lated to greater production, while the Central Government would
Heavy fighting was resumed last in closer touch with the Catalan night around a point to the south of the Woosung Creek when the Chinese launched a surprise attack. The Japanese troops were simultane= ously subjected to heavy bombing by a number of Chinese planes. Fight- ing was still in progress this morn-
Hua-Nan
SMALL SCALE ACTIONS
YANGSZE RIVER SHIPPING
River shipping
Shanghai, To-day. Hostilities in Shanghai are at pre-and Hankow will sent mainly limited to irregular con- by dicts on small scale The Japanese Ca
sever
Nanking to-day
of the Chin Navigation and the Indo-China Steam
Co., Ltd.
be heavy passenger and in view of the suspen- of the Shang- tional Newa
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